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gemma-3

gemma-3 is an open-weight language model from google, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

LLMs google 5 variants 3.5M downloads/mo
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Specifications

What it is

Makergoogle
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)1000M
Variants5
Runs withtransformers
Based ongoogle/gemma-3-1b-pt
Released2025-03-10
Popularity3.5M downloads / month
Likes2,015
LicenceOpen, with conditions

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
gemma-3-1b-it1000MBF16~2.3 GBWeights ↗
gemma-3-270m268MBF16~0.6 GBWeights ↗
gemma-3-4b-it4.3BBF16~9.9 GBWeights ↗
gemma-3-12b-it12.2BBF16~28 GBWeights ↗
gemma-3-27b-it27.4BBF16~63.1 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys gemma-3 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (gemma-3 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"gemma-3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers safetensors gemma3_text text-generation conversational eval-results text-generation-inference endpoints_compatible deploy:sagemaker gemma3 gemma google image-text-to-text

Papers

Licence

Open, with conditions

Open weights under gemma, which carries conditions (e.g. attribution or an acceptable-use clause). Worth a read before production use — we can walk you through it. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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